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Rolf Trauernicht (* July 23, 1924 in Großefehn ; † July 16, 2017 in the Aurich district ) was a German entrepreneur. Born in East Frisia, he was one of the initiators (“spiritual father”) of the model project “Closing the gap” on the A 31 and was also a sponsor. Trauernicht is an honorary citizen of the community of Großefehn.

Life

Rolf "Tullum" Trauernicht was born as the oldest of twelve children of the inland ship Focke Trauernicht. After attending elementary school from 1930 to 1938, he worked for two years on his father's barge. He experienced the war from 1941 as a sailor on an air traffic control boat of the Air Force, at sea and as a radio operator in the Navy. From July 1945 he became a self-employed inland boatman and founded the TRAUCO building materials business in May 1949 . As a medium-sized entrepreneur, Trauernicht decided to push ahead with the construction of roads.

In order to enforce road construction in post-war East Frisia, he became active in local politics. From 1952 to 1976 he was represented in the district council of the Aurich district - temporarily as deputy district administrator and parliamentary group chairman of the CDU . During this time he was also a member of the Großefehn municipal council and served on the board of directors. Since 1999 he has been the only honorary citizen of his home parish so far. In 1977 he was awarded the Lower Saxony Order of Merit, 1st class .

In 2002 he was awarded the “Ubbo Emmius Medal” by the East Frisian Landscape for special services to East Frisia.

From the TRAUCO building materials dealer, which he founded in May 1949, a group of companies developed with 1,450 employees in 24 building material dealerships at the top in 1994, a manufacturing company for industrial valves made of stainless steel that operated worldwide, and was among other things the founder and partner of the ready-mixed concrete company VETRA . In the 1970s he was one of the driving forces behind the founding of Nowebau, an association of medium-sized building materials dealers.

He was Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for East Friesland and Papenburg and has been an honorary member since 1999.

Trauernicht became known to a broad East Frisian public through several topics and the establishment of several development associations and interest groups. He is considered to be one of the intellectual fathers of closing the gap on the A 31 , for which he initiated a fundraising campaign. He was always one of those people who cut ribbons on newly opened sections. He had another fundraising campaign devoted to the initial planning of the A 22 (today A 20 ). He was also an advocate of a trans-European east-west route of the Transrapid from Moscow to Madrid with a station in East Frisia - but without success here. He pursued and operated the idea of ​​a district or regional council of East Friesland , which was finally founded in 2010. He was involved in an association for the construction of a motorway-like connection to the city of Aurich via the federal highway 210 to the A 31 .

Since 1947 he was married to his wife Betty. The couple has four children.

Trauernicht was almost exclusively addressed with the nickname Tullum instead of his first name Rolf. Therefore, after his death in his home town of Großefehn in 2018, the street where his apartment and wholesale are located was renamed Tullumstraße.

literature

Jörg Müller-Barkei: Tullum! A life for East Frisia. The biography of Rolf Trauernicht . De Utrooper, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for Rolf "Tullum" Mourning not. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ A great entrepreneur and a great East Frisian. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Welcome to TRAUCO
  4. ↑ Ostfriesische Nachrichten of July 23, 2014: “Tullum is celebrating its 90th birthday” , accessed on July 24, 2014.
  5. ^ Sunday paper May 19, 2018: "Kirchweg now Tullumstraße"
personal data
SURNAME Don't mourn, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tullum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Großefehn , district of Aurich
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2017